Anorexia+in+adults

Anorexia in adults is just as common as in teens. It is usually cause by divorce death or some kind of stress in an olde person's life.

It's rare to develop it after the age of 20. At the same time, the illness can be chronic and the course of the illness tends to be fairly protracted, so many people with [|anorexia nervosa] will have symptoms of the illness continuing well into adulthood. Roughly 3%-5% of people who develop anorexia nervosa will have its illness in its full form for decades, meaning the symptoms will be present acutely well into adult life. So when you consider that the course of the illness tends to be fairly protracted, it is not at all unusual for people who have anorexia nervosa to be of adult age. In my experience, when the illness actually seems to unfold after the age of 20 it is usually foreshadowed by milder symptoms developing during the teenage years.